What is Free Web Hosting
If you’re trying to build a web site and have been seeing the ‘get your free web hosting here‘ banners and text links everywhere, you’re probably a little confused. Being a non-Internet publisher person, you’re also wondering what the catch is, where is it and how to avoid it.
Well, free web hosting is a real thing - it’s not something that someone cooked up to catch you and make you buy something or anything (although the web hosting company is kind of hoping that you’ll be annoyed enough with free web site hosting to upgrade your account with them).
How does free web hosting service work?
Well, for starters, every web page is located in a computer somewhere. For instance, if you type www.yahoo.com or www.google.com into your web browser, pages are being called out from a server (a computer) somewhere else and the information (pages) are then displayed on your computer.
So, if you’re using free web hosting services, the hosting company is actually allowing you to place your web pages into their computer and when your client or family members type your URL (web site address) into the web browser, the files located in the hosting server will be displayed on their computers.
So, why are they allowing you to use the server space for free, you’re asking? Well, when you use their free web hosting services and upload your web pages into their servers, they immediately encode the pages to put banners, text ads or popup ads into the web pages. This way, they make money from the advertisements that they place into the many web pages hosted with them.